The funny thing is that the person who approved the law increasing the prison time for that crime was... Bolsonaro.

I've managed to run some old games on Linux with Bottles/Wine that didn't work on Windows anymore.

IMO the "year of the Linux desktop" will come when distros are designed for people who shouldn't even be allowed to use sudo.

Peertube still needs improvements to start looking attractive.

While it is technically federated, using it still feels like it's just a bunch of small disjointed sites.

I completely agree. Here in Brazil there's a great example of how badly these binaries fail with Getúlio Vargas.

He got into power with the help of the fascists against the communists. But he was an ultranationalist and those were foreign ideologies, so he persecuted both.

He instituted many workers' rights and was called big father of the poor, but was also a cruel dictator who committed genocide against the natives, and also persecuted white Europeans who did not had Brazilian culture.

After being deposed he got reelected and committed suicide in a way that saved Brazilian democracy from a military coup.

free market means consumers are free to choose where to buy from, it absolutely requires government regulations.

The Dune books.

OK, not boring, but nowhere near deserving the praise they get.

I've only managed to get through the first two.

For Brazil I'd suggest Curitiba or Florianópolis as the safest and most likely welcoming. Other cities might be more welcoming but less safe, or more safe and less welcoming.

Cupid should try moving to the Southern Hemisphere, February is the perfect time to do that.

When I got a beagle I was warned that the race makes for great alarm dogs, but terrible guard dogs, they will bark a lot and then become friends with the burglar.

At that point both countries became a United Kingdom.

The later "Independence" of Brazil was just a splitting of the crown, and Emperor Pedro I of Brazil still considered himself a subject of his father king of Portugal.

At least here where I live in Brazil most people who want to colonize, want Italy instead of Portugal.

non-cursive is infuriatingly slow to write.

Strong evidence for the horseshoe theory.

Yes! The beta was much more fun than the full release.

It being abandoned by the devs is a bit sad, but at least it means great mod stability.

I recently used one "agentic 'AI'" to help writing unit tests. Was surprisingly productive with it; but also felt very dirty afterwards.

For me "Christian Nationalism" is an almost physically painful oxymoron.

In my understanding, Christians should see ourselves as and live as exiles, as our nation is Heaven.

I hate that this pun only works in English.

Why is Dune even considered good sci-fi? It's more fantasy than Star Wars. Except for maybe replacing the ornithopters with blimps, you could change everything to a pseudo-medieval setting and it wouldn't change anything in the story.

The copyright thing doesn't bother me much, but the absurdly inflated hype and pushiness from the companies does, and using it at this moment only feeds into it. Probably after the bubble bursts I won't feel bad about using it.